Let's Talk About Pottery & Collectables
Pottery => Oriental => Topic started by: Mosquito on September 17, 2012, 01:36:01 PM
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Here's another recent find. As you can see, it's sadly cracked, but the good news is it cost very little!
It's a beautiful little item. I haven't got round to measuring it yet but would guess it's around 3 1/2 inches tall. It's decorated in underglaze blue with a design of vases and flowers - one side shows a particularly attractive vase decorated with a cracked-ice pattern.
The body is slightly lobes and stands on an applied foot with a scroll design.
From looking around on the web, it seems this would have originally have had a lid. The form is described as a tea caddy, though I don't know if they were used as such. The other examples I've found are all decorated with overglaze enamels, however, they share the same distinctive form and foot.
They seem to be dated to Yongzheng to Qianlong period, though it must be noted these dates are from dealers' sites - I haven't found an example in a reference book yet, although I have no reason to doubt the date. I've also seen a famille verte example dated as Kangxi period.
Steven :)
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Links to similar form in famille rose colours:
http://www.mfordcreech.com/Qianlong_Famille_Rose_Mandarin_Tea_Caddy.htm
http://www.trocadero.com/pgoa/items/1146503/item1146503store.html
http://www.trocadero.com/stores/pgoa/items/1125665/item1125665.html
And here a famille verte example described as Kangxi:
http://www.trocadero.com/paha/items/101198/item101198store.html
Edited to add: found another in blue & white, also dated Yongzheng to early Qianlong:
http://www.cleij-art.com/items/1KE061.htm
Base view:
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Having looked a little further, it seems caddies of this form were recovered from the Ca Mau shipwreck, dated c.1725. This would seem to support a Yongzheng to early Qianlong attribution (Emperor Qianlong's reign began in 1736).
http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/home/836
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Great find Steven,if I'd seen that I'd have sworn it was brand new! ;D ;D
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Just checked the measurements and its about 10cm/ a fraction under 4 inches tall.
Keith, you wouldn't have mistaken it for brand new in the state it arrived - it was full of dust & the scroll foot was very grimy. it took a lot of work with a soft-bristled toothbrush to get it looking shiny again! ;)
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Those old toothbrushes come in very useful,pottery and glass ;D ;D